This is an analysis of the poem The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears that begins with:
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbXdaXb cccbb XdXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111111 1001010101 1001110001 0101010101 1100011111 11011100101 1111100101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011111 1111101101 01001010101 0101110101 010010101001 1111011111 1101010101 1111110101 1111110111 1111110101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tears, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word tears is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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